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I confess I am more of a non-fiction reader. I read voraciously, but most of it is non-fiction. If I read fiction, it needs to be fast-paced like Grisham or Baldacci.
Here is my question: What recommendations for fiction would you give me? What works of fiction are worth the read in your view and how the heck do you get through them?
I’d love your thoughts. Thanks.
Wilbour Smith… I love getting immersed into the sense of adventure.
Clive Cussler…great escapism and adventure…and he has an interesting quirk in his books in which you will always meet a character called “Clive Cussler” ..who is different in every book.
Tom Clancy, Jeffery Archer, and the classics that were written by Mark Twain and C.S Lewis.
Wilbour Smith is a new one to me. I think I’ve read something of Archer’s…
I wish I could suggest something, but most of the fiction I have read are the classic literature authors and not the big hard back books out there right now. I have to say one of my favorite books I have read was “Happy Death’ by Albert Camus or “Metamorphisis” from Franz Kafka.
Debbie, I can always rely on you for those kinds of book! 😉
Baseball novels are a guilty pleasure for me. WP Kinsella is great – “Shoeless Joe” is of course the novel which turned into the film Field of Dreams. Also the Iowa Baseball Confederacy is great.
A longer baseball novel, which also has a bunch of religious themes, is David James Duncan’s The Brothers K.
Finally, for any pastor I’d recommend Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead. Or for any person, for that matter.
I need to try baseball novels. I read “The Natural” too quickly.
I’ve seen Gilead. Thanks for that recommendation.
Ever try alternative history? Very interesting…if you like history that is…
Rex, got any titles or authors? What does alternative history mean?
I can’t get myself to read fiction because I want to learn so much stuff. But how about the C.S. Lewis Narnia series? Then you’d have some good Christian culture too.
I want to read Tolstoy sometime in my life. Probably not for a long time.
Jeff
Narnia was good. Tolkien was good a few years ago.
Kethy Reichs is a very good writer (bones)
I was wondering. I love the show.
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